Guys the current math says that Reputation and Marks are not an issue.

The total reputation is 40000.

Projects that add +2000 reputation costs 19 Marks.

That is 20projects total that require 380 marks.

You get 60 marks for an ESTF.

That is 7 ESTF.

So: S7 goes live. You play 7 ESTS that day and that's it. You are done for forever! Now you wait 40days to convert all Marks into reputation and buy everything with dilithium. The end. Sounds weird? Yes, it does.

that's only the tier 1 projects if it's like the starbase when you hit the tier 2 projects the amount of reputation you get will go down but the amount you have to put in will go up